oooor i can find someone cheaper.
Arenât you making money off of me by selling me enchanting materials in the AH?
Dont like it? Put the enchant on a scroll and list your price. Donât LFW like a poor.
You arenât weighing the cost of wasting your time LFW. Itâs called opportunity cost in the real world. Sell the scrolls. You could have done 3 other dailies in that time and made more coin then your measly 10g tip.
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If Iâm already paying you for the service Iâm not tipping above 5g at most if that.
Most people just buy the enchants off the AH⌠most are cheaper than paying mats + 20g tip⌠unless its a weapon enchant
Youâre the quest giver. You stand there, we come to you. Yet we pay you.
Curious.
Enchanting is easily the most expensive profession to level. Yet 450 enchanters sit around spamming free enchanting in trade. âBecause Iâm max already who cares.â
When I advertise my enchanting itâs âYour mats and a 20g flat fee, PST.â That way I get paid, and you donât have to wonder what to âtip,â and I donât have to deal with a cheapskate who wants to tip 3g for an enchant with 1,500gold worth of mats.
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If you call for a minimum pay amount then it is a fee and not tip.
Precisely - a profession. If you want to use real life examples, stop using the waiter analogy and consider it like any trade or skill.
Do you tip your plumbers for the time they were an underpaid apprentice? Do you tip your lawyer for the tens of thousands of dollars their degree cost and lost income while studying?
Time spent levelling your profession was an investment, not some public good. If you now choose to give away your profession for free (with tips) thatâs your choice. If you want money then just charge for your services like any other professional.
The professions you used get paid by their company. So they get paid. Should all the enchanters put in an app to be hired by an in game company? Your analogy is not only Garbo itâs meant to justify your selfishness and lack of courtesy for others. Once again Iâll call anyone like you cheap af.
If you want to make 20g+ for doing nothing but standing in a city while running a weakaura, then go ahead and use those enchanting mats you stockpiled from DEing all your quest gear, and stick your precious enchants on a vellum.
And waiters donât? Doi.
Itâs called owning your own business, or independent contracting, which is effectively what you are doing in WoW as a tradesman. Nobody pays you a salary: you find your own clients and provide a fixed service to said clients using your own tools. You define your own hours, set your own fees, and negotiate your own contracts.
Iâll gladly pay a plumber to fix a leak. I also have respect for a plumber who offers free services for the betterment of the community, and would be happy to donate to support them.
But a plumber who nominally offers free services to maintain some pseudo-moral superiority, but expects âtipsâ and complains about their income? Iâll just pay to go with a professional, thank you.
I usually never tip below 15g for anything. 5g is more than enough for you to click 2-3 buttons. Youll get generous people obviously and you will also get cheap people who tip 1-2g. Dont pretend what youre doing is actually worth 20g tho
You can literally sell enchants on the auction house for gold.
A tip is what the customer chooses to give you, if you are asking for a price then itâs no longer a tip its a purchase or sale.
I agree with this statement. Enchanters should really benefit themselves by naming their price and putting the enchant on a vellum and selling it for an inflated priceâas is happening on the AH now.
We know, as a trend from the start of Vanilla Classic, that players will generally prioritize maximizing their characterâs performance over what they think is âfairâ or âfun.â
Morons like this certainly deserve to pay a premium and many of them will.
I definitely donât enjoy waiting around for some idiot to go find their mats for an enchant when I could be doing other things only to get 5gâparticularly on high level enchants where it took a long time to get the skill or to farm the recipeâso I donât.
How entitled. Stop being Woke itâs a game, if you not happy just charge for a job instead hoping for âgenerousâ tips.
Itâs funny the way you condescend to this person while simultaneously encouraging a situation where youâre likely going to pay more than you would have for enchants.
By the way, imagine soliciting a service from someone and expecting them to be satisfied with any random pittance. Whoâs entitled?
Nope their hourly gets eaten up by taxes. They work exclusively for tips. A justification to not tip your waiter or tradesman is only a personal justification for being cheap. Get your gold game up if you canât afford a 20g top when most quests give you that plus a 12g weapon to vendor. Huge kek